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NFS monitoring integration

Our NFS integration collects and sends inventory and metrics from your NFS service to our platform, where you can see disk usage data so that you can more easily find the source of any problems.

Read on to install the integration, and to see what data we collect.

Compatibility and requirements

Our integration is compatible with NFS version 3 or 4.

Before installing the integration, make sure that you meet the following requirements:

Install and activate

The NFS integration is already activated and installed by default. Therefore, there are no installation or activation requirements, as it works out of the box. See samples variables, and search for NFS for more info.

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Find and use data

To find your integration data go to one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Infrastructure > Third-party services and select the NFS integration link.

When querying your data, NFS data is attached to the NFSSample event type.

For more on how to find and use your data, see Understand and use integration data.

Metric data

The NFS integration collects the following metrics:

Default metrics

These metrics are captured by default:

Name

Description

diskTotalBytes

Total number of available bytes on disk.

diskUsedBytes

Total number of bytes used.

diskUsedPercent

Percentage of bytes used.

diskFreeBytes

Total number of available bytes left on disk.

diskFreePercent

Percent of free space available on disk.

totalReadBytes

Total number of bytes read.

totalWriteBytes

Total number of bytes written.

readBytesPerSecond

Number of bytes read per second.

writeBytesPerSecond

Number of bytes written per second.

readsPerSecond

Number of read operations per second.

writesPerSecond

Number of write operations per second.

totalOpsPerSecond

Total number of operations per second.

version

NFS version (will be either 3.0 or 4.0).

device

Device name.

mountPoint

Mount point of NFS volume.

filesystemType

Filesystem type.

Extended metrics

Additional metrics captured when detailed_nfs is enabled (set to true in the infrastructure configuration file):

Name

Description

ageSeconds

Age in seconds of NFS client.

inodeRevalidate

Number of times cached inode attributes are re-validated from the server.

dnodeRevalidate

Number of times cached dentry nodes are re-validated from the server.

dataInvalidate

Number of times an inode cache is cleared.

attributeInvalidate

Number of times cached inode attributes are invalidated.

vfsOpen

Number of times files or directories have been open()'d.

vfsLookUp

Number of times a directory lookup has occurred.

vfsAccess

Number of times permissions have been checked.

vfsUpdatePage

Number of updates (and potential writes) to pages.

vfsReadPage

Number of pages read directly via mmap()'d files.

vfsReadPages

Number of times a group of pages have been read.

vfsWritePage

Number of pages written directly via mmap()'d files.

vfsWritePages

Number of times a group of pages have been written.

vfsGetDents

Number of times directory entries have been read with getdents().

vfsSetattr

Number of times attributes have been set on inodes.

vfsFlush

Number of pending writes that have been forcefully flushed to the server.

vfsFsync

Number of times fsync() has been called on directories and files.

vfsLock

Number of times locking has been attempted on a file.

vfsFileRelease

Number of times files have been closed and released.

truncation

Number of times files have been truncated.

writeExtension

Number of times a file has been grown due to writes beyond its existing end.

sillyRename

Number of times a file was removed while still open by another process.

shortRead

Number of times the NFS server gave less data than expected while reading.

shortWrite

Number of times the NFS server wrote less data than expected while writing.

jukeboxDelay

Number of times the NFS server indicated EJUKEBOX; retrieving data from offline storage.

pnfsRead

Number of NFS v4.1+ pNFS reads.

pnfsWrite

Number of NFS v4.1+ pNFS writes.

bind

Number of times the client has had to establish a connection from scratch to the NFS server.

connect

Number of times the client has made a TCP connection to the NFS server.

connectIdleTime

Duration (in jiffies, a kernel internal unit of time) the NFS mount has spent waiting for connections to the server to be established.

idleTimeSeconds

Duration since the NFS mount last saw any RPC traffic.

send

Number of RPC requests for this mount sent to the NFS server.

receive

Number of RPC responses for this mount received from the NFS server.

badTransactionIds

Number of times the NFS server sent a response with a transaction ID unknown to this client.

cumulativeActiveRequest

A running er, incremented on each request as the current difference between sends and receives.

cumulativeBacklog

A running counter, incremented on each request by the current backlog queue size.

maximumRPCSlotsUsed

Maximum number of simultaneously active RPC requests ever used.

cumulativeSendingQueue

A running counter, incremented on each request as the current size of the sending queue.

cumulativePendingQueue

A running counter, incremented on each request as the current size of the pending queue.

Disabling the integration

Set metrics_nfs_sample_rate to -1 in the infrastructure agent configuration file to avoid scraping NFS metrics.

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